Odessa Girl
How popular is Odessa?
#1,192 girl name in 2025
193 baby girls were named Odessa in the US in 2025, making it the 1192nd most popular girl name.
Odessa popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,192 for girls (▲ 387 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 193 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+157% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,431 in 2015, #1,593 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1920 (464 girls) |
| Highest rank | #278 in 1908 (2 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Odessa counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Odessa family of names ranked #993 for girls in 2025 (#1,269 the year before), with 203 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Odessa | 193 | 95% |
| Odesza | 10 | 5% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Odessa is most popular
Babies named Odessa per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Oregon: 0.4 per 1,000 (23 girls)
- Wisconsin: 0.2 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Washington: 0.2 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- Indiana: 0.2 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Idaho: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Odessa by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 204 | #381 |
| 1890s | 508 | #355 |
| 1900s | 1,183 | #278 |
| 1910s | 3,085 | #280 |
| 1920s | 4,114 | #302 |
| 1930s | 2,436 | #391 |
| 1940s | 1,708 | #479 |
| 1950s | 1,167 | #714 |
| 1960s | 683 | #1,102 |
| 1970s | 505 | #1,527 |
| 1980s | 439 | #1,703 |
| 1990s | 447 | #2,416 |
| 2000s | 544 | #2,628 |
| 2010s | 734 | #1,745 |
| 2020s | 807 | #1,192 |
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Questions
- Is Odessa a boy or girl name?
- Odessa is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Odessa were girls.
- How popular is the name Odessa?
- 193 baby girls were named Odessa in the US in 2025, making it the 1192nd most popular girl name.
- When was Odessa most popular?
- Odessa peaked in 1920, when 464 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #278, held for 2 years starting in 1908.
- How many people are named Odessa?
- 18,718 babies have been named Odessa in the US since 1880. We estimate about 6,874 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 57.
- Where is Odessa most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Odessa was most common in Oregon, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.